“In the light of day, locked behind a toilet door, the enormous throbbing sore had produced a hat of pus. I felt it pop like a grape in my pants as I sat down to another meal of potato and sausage. It was ringed with a blue line clear as if drawn with a pencil.Continue reading “RKS Literature: A Venereal Gift From Calcutta (Andrea Levy)”
Author Archives: Robert K Stephen (CSW)
RKS Literature: Syphilis WWII Style?
“The medical officer, on the boat when we first came out east, had warned us RAF recruits. Ulcers, inflammations, colourful discharge, swellings. All the result of sexual relations with the wrong type. He’d given us lectures. Colourful pictures were passed around. Lurid photographs. Quite shocking. Parts of the body unrecognizable as human. Turned some ofContinue reading “RKS Literature: Syphilis WWII Style?”
CBC On Design: And You Thought Watching Cement Dry Was Not Exciting! Think Again After Watching “How to Design With Concrete”
A new digital series CBC ON DESIGN launches on 4July2025 with a new episode weekly. In five 15-minute episodes, the CBC Arts Original Series explores how an industrial designer’s idea evolves to become a product in your home. The series begins with CONCRETE featuring Montreal designers Matt and Shawna Heide founders of CONCRETE CAT. MattContinue reading “CBC On Design: And You Thought Watching Cement Dry Was Not Exciting! Think Again After Watching “How to Design With Concrete””
RKS 2025 Wine: Back to Toronto and “Fancy” Sicilian Wine: Planeta’s 2020 Controdanza
Having spent two weeks in Sicily in May very little wine was consumed. My agenda was tourism this time and not wine tourism. The best wine I had in Sicily? Small batch Primitivo produced in the countryside proximate to the archaeological site of Villa Romana del Casale served with lunch in large jugs sourced fromContinue reading “RKS 2025 Wine: Back to Toronto and “Fancy” Sicilian Wine: Planeta’s 2020 Controdanza”
RKS 2025 Film: “Dogtooth”: 4K Restoration Opens North America 4July2025
The breakout 2009 Yorgos Lanthimos film “Dogtooth” commences a North American theatrical release in a 4K restoration format. Parents confine their three adult children in a family compound in a state of childlike innocence through manipulation, violence and abuse. Sexual perversion including incest is omnipresent. Outrageous falsehoods and childlike games and contests preoccupy the adultContinue reading “RKS 2025 Film: “Dogtooth”: 4K Restoration Opens North America 4July2025”
RKS Literature: Loving the Helpless Younger Brother (James Baldwin)
“I think it may be easier to love the really helpless younger brother because he cannot enter into competition with one’s own ground, or on any ground at all, and can never question one’s role, or jeopardize one’s authority. In my own case, certainly, it did not occur to me until much later-to compete withContinue reading “RKS Literature: Loving the Helpless Younger Brother (James Baldwin)”
RKS Literature: England Needed to Keep the Rioting Muslims and Hindus Under Control! (Andrea Levy)
“Thousands were killed in Calcutta. Men, women, children, even suckling babies. They called it a riot. Those of us who’d been in the thick of things with these bloodthirsty little men knew it was more than that. Muslims butchering Hindus. Hindus butchering Muslims. And who knows whose side the Sikhs were on? Rumour said theContinue reading “RKS Literature: England Needed to Keep the Rioting Muslims and Hindus Under Control! (Andrea Levy)”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: Hernia Pay for View Event
Not to exaggerate but hernia surgery is big business so why not cash in! I am close to finalizing a pay for view event “Hernias the Agony and the Ecstasy” with Fightview International based in Pineville, North Carolina. There will be three event viewings. View one: “The Scourge of the Hernia Plague” View two: “HerniaContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: Hernia Pay for View Event”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?
Given that hernia surgery is one of the most “common surgeries” in the developed world and the citizens in the developed world have massive amounts of cash to squander on consumer goods why not create a global hotline assuaging and profiting from Hernia Fear? Where there is medical fear there is money to be madeContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?
Your admission into the Hernia Club (Inguinal Division) commences from the day you emerged from the shower and noticed a bulge just above the waist. Membership ends upon your death. There is no initiation fee, annual charge or minimum bar and restaurant tab required. No need to worry about global inclusion and diversity. The preponderanceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?”
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